Fort Pillow State Historic Park

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state park

Fort Pillow State Historic Park is a Tennessee state park preserving the site of the Civil War’s Fort Pillow and the infamous 1864 battle and massacre that occurred there.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Fort Pillow	4
Fort Pillow State Historic Park canonical	2
Fort Pillow (Tennessee)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5061498 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Fort Pillow State Historic Park
Context triple: [Tipton County, Tennessee, hasHistoricSite, Fort Pillow State Historic Park]

A. Fort Dobbs State Historic Site
Fort Dobbs State Historic Site is a reconstructed French and Indian War-era frontier fort and museum in North Carolina that interprets colonial military history and frontier life.
B. Fort Recovery State Memorial
Fort Recovery State Memorial is a historic site and park in Ohio that preserves the location of a major 1791 U.S.–Native American conflict and interprets the broader history of early frontier warfare in the Northwest Territory.
C. Jefferson Davis State Historic Site
Jefferson Davis State Historic Site is a Kentucky state park and memorial marking the birthplace of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
D. Eutaw Springs Battlefield Park
Eutaw Springs Battlefield Park is a historic site in South Carolina preserving and interpreting the location of one of the final major battles of the American Revolutionary War.
E. Tupelo National Battlefield
Tupelo National Battlefield is a small U.S. National Park Service site commemorating the Civil War Battle of Tupelo in northeastern Mississippi.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Fort Pillow State Historic Park
Target entity description: Fort Pillow State Historic Park is a Tennessee state park preserving the site of the Civil War’s Fort Pillow and the infamous 1864 battle and massacre that occurred there.

A. Fort Dobbs State Historic Site
Fort Dobbs State Historic Site is a reconstructed French and Indian War-era frontier fort and museum in North Carolina that interprets colonial military history and frontier life.
B. Fort Recovery State Memorial
Fort Recovery State Memorial is a historic site and park in Ohio that preserves the location of a major 1791 U.S.–Native American conflict and interprets the broader history of early frontier warfare in the Northwest Territory.
C. Jefferson Davis State Historic Site
Jefferson Davis State Historic Site is a Kentucky state park and memorial marking the birthplace of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
D. Eutaw Springs Battlefield Park
Eutaw Springs Battlefield Park is a historic site in South Carolina preserving and interpreting the location of one of the final major battles of the American Revolutionary War.
E. Tupelo National Battlefield
Tupelo National Battlefield is a small U.S. National Park Service site commemorating the Civil War Battle of Tupelo in northeastern Mississippi.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	state park ⓘ
commemorates	Battle of Fort Pillow (1864) ⓘ linked to: Fort Pillow Massacre Union soldiers killed at Fort Pillow ⓘ United States Colored Troops at Fort Pillow ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
establishedFor	preservation of Civil War fortifications ⓘ public education about the Battle of Fort Pillow ⓘ
hasAccess	public park ⓘ
hasActivity	birdwatching ⓘ camping ⓘ fishing ⓘ hiking ⓘ
hasCategory	American Civil War sites ⓘ Parks in Tennessee ⓘ Protected areas of Lauderdale County, Tennessee ⓘ
hasDesignation	Tennessee State Historic Park ⓘ linked to: Red Clay State Historic Park
hasFeature	Civil War interpretive center ⓘ earthwork fortifications ⓘ interpretive trails ⓘ museum exhibits ⓘ overlooks of the Mississippi River ⓘ
hasHistoricalEvent	Battle of Fort Pillow ⓘ linked to: Fort Pillow Massacre Fort Pillow massacre ⓘ linked to: Fort Pillow Massacre
hasLandscape	bluffs above the Mississippi River ⓘ
hasNearbyWaterBody	Mississippi River ⓘ
hasReconstruction	reconstructed inner fort ⓘ
hasSite	Fort Pillow ⓘ linked to: Fort Pillow State Historic Park
hasTheme	African American military history ⓘ American Civil War history ⓘ Confederate Army operations on the Mississippi River ⓘ Union Army operations on the Mississippi River ⓘ
hasTrail	interpretive battlefield trail ⓘ
hasWildlife	migratory birds ⓘ waterfowl ⓘ
locatedIn	Lauderdale County, Tennessee ⓘ Tennessee ⓘ
locatedNear	Henning, Tennessee ⓘ linked to: Henning, Tennessee, United States
locatedOn	Mississippi River ⓘ
operatedBy	Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation ⓘ Tennessee State Parks ⓘ
partOf	Tennessee state park system ⓘ linked to: Tennessee State Parks
preserves	American Civil War battlefield ⓘ site of Fort Pillow ⓘ site of the Battle of Fort Pillow ⓘ
subjectOf	Civil War historical studies ⓘ heritage tourism in Tennessee ⓘ

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